好文分享: As Code

原文地址

hashicorp的大名早就听说过了, 今天正好看到了其联合创始人的一篇文章: As Code

文章很短. 只有一页不到, 其中的观点让我觉得很受教. 分享出来一起学习.

as code 是一个非常值得深究的话题, K8S 可以称之为 Deployment as code, Terraform可以称之为 Infra as code.

当一种技术能够被as code的时候, 证明了两件事情:

1. 成体系
2. 能够复用/分享/传播

引用原文中的一段:

My intent with "X as Code"³ was always to get knowledge out of people's heads and into a more inscribed system. Once inscribed, knowledge and process can be shared, versioned, iterated upon, etc.

The relation to programming is that codified knowledge tends to also be computer-readable and comes with the full benefits of that (e.g. automation, validation, etc). However, I don't believe that implies that all the requirements of modern programming should be applied to "as code" systems.

其中最好的一句话是: 一旦具象化, 知识和流程就能够被分享, 版本管理, 迭代优化.

在recorder的开发中也是秉持着同样的思路: 一个高质量的代码提交, 结果非常重要, 但是得出结果的过程同样重要.

于是recorder的核心就变成了: 过程 as code. 将构建代码的过程定义成代码.

听起来有点傻逼, 核心是: 只看结果是不够的, 要给AI看过程, 过程是重要的.